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How sleep, physiology, and psychological safety affect your work performance

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How Does the Body Differentiate Between Physical Threat and Psychological Threat?

Stress response system is not good at differentiating between physical thret and psychological threat. One of the most stressful things that you can do to a human is to socially reject them. If humans don't feel safe in a group, they'll divert a significant chunk of mental processing into what we call social threat processing. This is incredibly metabolically expensive, and it means that our brains are really not on the task at hand.

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